Dudley Stop Smoking Service

Know your limits

It’s not illegal to go abroad and buy cheap cigarettes for your own use, which includes gifts to friends and family – as long as the amount is within custom guidelines and no money changes hands. However, bringing cheap cigarettes or tobacco in from abroad and selling them on, is breaking the law.

There are no limits on the amount of duty/tax paid tobacco goods you can bring into the UK from the European Union (EU), as long as they are for your own use, not for commercial gain and are transported by you personally.

However, you are likely to be asked questions at the UK frontier if you have more than the following:

800 cigarettes

400 cigarillos

200 cigars

1 kg of tobacco

If you’re coming back from a country outside of the EU, there are limits on what you can bring back into the UK. These are: